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Thomas Friedman, the father of Neoliberalism, was an intelligent man without doubt. Already in 1982 he had realized that in order for the citizens of any given state to be persuaded to give up on the welfare provisions they were enjoying, a kind of an emergency situation had to be created: “a crisis –real or […]

The Greek parliament has approved the new set of austerity measures and the privatization legislation with a robust margin. But unfortunately even this victory is not going to be a breakthrough in this crisis. Assuring passage of the austerity and privatization legislation in parliament was only the easy part. Given the waves of discontent being […]